Tag Archives: infreemation

Telus gets it?

Posted on October 26, 2006 by ian

Most of us remember Telus taking a huge misstep on the network neutrality issue by blocking access to its union website. In an amazing about face Telus seems to have done some homework, obviously doing a bit of soul searching … Continue reading →

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Alternatives to DRM? [Updated: YouTube’s perfect storm]

Posted on September 5, 2006 by ian

UPDATE: Google has bought YouTube for 1.6+ Billion and there is a hell of a debate going on surrounding Mark Cuban’s criticism of Google’s purchase and the actual value of YouTube given that it does not use DRM, therefore requiring … Continue reading →

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Inventor of the web weighs in: Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality

Posted on June 22, 2006 by ian

Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web finally weighs in on the Net Neutrality debate in a blog entry. It is accompanied by a video which is currently only available in RealVideo format, hopefully someone will upload it to Google … Continue reading →

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The Internet Wants to Be Free

Posted on June 4, 2006 by ian

In my previous post I argue that internet neutrality legislation could help ease the transition to an internet society and economy. On further thought and debate I’m not really sure that regulation would be the most constructive response to the … Continue reading →

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The “best effort” internet is the only internet

Posted on March 2, 2006 by ian

Yoda said “Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’” He didn’t run a site on the internet, which is and always will be a “best effort network” with no guarantees of availability and performance. It is up to the … Continue reading →

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Are search engines illegal? The challenge of accessing copyrighted material under fair use and how it impacts our education.

Posted on January 22, 2006 by ian

Following the debate on fair use is a great way to dive into information economics. We all know and love that various kinds of media (audio, video, print…) are used to create songs, movies and books (or more generally “works”). … Continue reading →

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Welcome to 2006 where your ideas and even your DNA are own3d by someone else…

Posted on January 20, 2006 by ian

Now is a truly amazing time to be alive for the curious and adventurous – opportunities to do what you enjoy for a living have never been better. The information available on obscure interests is amazing. There is lots to … Continue reading →

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Beer Googles – how to benefit from Google and still see straight

Posted on November 20, 2004 by ian

In the world of search, Google was in the right place at the right time with the right technology and people. This remarkably hard thing to achieve has been rewarded by a large customer base and a vast overvaluation of … Continue reading →

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Infreemation and The Evolution of Memes – Rip, Mix and Burn

Posted on October 26, 2004 by ian

Why does “information want to be free”? I think the phrase is a good way of explaining to most people that information is really hard to treat like property. The cost of reproduction and transportation is absurdly low, thus it … Continue reading →

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Infreemation Revolution

Posted on October 5, 2004 by ian

The coming economic crisis in information I enjoyed reading Adam Rifkin’s back of the envelope calculations about personal information storage and processing. I’m looking forward to trying to make at least a few of the @20 Gigabytes of information I … Continue reading →

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